And how many real terrorists are going to, hey, use their own credit card to pay members of their cell, f'rinstance, or waste time chatting on IRC, or doing any of the other things that leave obvious traces?
Why do you think they will even bother using their own names. Quite a few of those involved in September 11th obviously used stolen identities.
Not only are ISPs and others having a hard time dealing with the flood of requests, but it seems Uncle Sam doesn't have the resources to crunch the data it's currently getting. This might be good in so far as it may someday make law enforcement more selective of the information they collect, or perhaps we'll all just be on file indefinately.
Maybe the people in charge of this should take a trip to Berlin. Preferably before the people who could tell them first hand where it is likely to lead die of old age. The only resources which really matter in the "crunching" are human ones anyway.
So what about the embassy bombings, the U.S. Cole, and the two attempts to destroy the World Trade Center (the second of which was successful)? Are you seeing a pattern? Whatever means we had in place before did not suffice.
It could just as easily mean that various people were not doing their jobs. Maybe instead of more powers they actually need less, so that they are less easily distracted. In the case of the first WTC attack one of the bombers was an FBI informant, who wanted to disable the bomb. But the FBI said no. The planes which crashed into the WTC (and The Pentagon) had not just taken off, instead they had flown through busy airspace in complete violation of FAA rules for considerable time. What extra powers would you give to the FBI to ensure they don't tell people not to prevent a terrorist bomb to go off? What additional powers would you give the FAA to ensure that they comply with the already existing regulations for off course aircraft? What additional powers would you give NORAD... Maybe before new powers (or even more money) these entities might need new managment.
Nationwide roving wiretaps. FBI and CIA can now go from phone to phone, computer to computer without demonstrating that each is even being used by a suspect or target of an order.
The thing is that in order to actually do this they need to have some kind of spy to tell them which line to tap at what time. If they have this they probably don't really need to do any kind of tapping in the first place. The only reason they could actually want these powere is for at best "fishing", at worst manufacturing bogus crimes.
The govt. issuses plastic NI cards with a magnetic strip on them.
But these cards only apply to new issues. They didn't send new cards out to everyone who already had one of the old hand written cards.
I can rember my NI number and my bank PIN.
Can't we use this info. and tec. to access govt web sites.
Except your bank PIN is known only to your bank and issued in such a way that it is not that easy for even bank staff to find out what it is. Whilst UK NI numbers are less abused than US SSN's they are not exactly confidential information.
Terrorists will still get these 'ID cards' just like you and me and what then. How do you distinguish between them and us? You can't. All it really comes down to is more thorough checks for immigrants and border crossings.
Except that they won't appear to be "immigrants" or tourists. You'd need to check everyone entering the US, including those identified as US citizens.
Write a paper letter. They know how easy it is to bat out an email, so they don't give them much weight. In any event, nobody has time to wade through the millions of emails they get, so they sit unread.
However it might be a very good idea to write such a letter in a dust free environment. Ensure that nothing in the paper or ink can create anything other than short lived isotopes when irradiated and expect it to take quite a time getting to its destination:)
The courts decide what is criminal and what is not, and up until the latest DOJ lawsuit, they have been found mostly innocent.
Calling them "mostly innocent" is an interesting spin on their being tried because they didn't abide by a previous judgment. Most people would consider "mostly guilty" fits the events better.
So they're going to trust the information of every single citizen to a corporation that has a known criminal track record?
Though given Microsoft's well known security the US will only ever have to deal with "domestic" terrorism in the future. Since all terrorists targeting the US will be recorded as being US citizens. (Also the US won't be able to invade anywhere...)
I've always wondered if the "click if you agree" thing is enough. I remember learning once in my highschool law class that when it came to contracts etc, both parties had to fully understand the extent of the wording - in order to protect people from "fine print" trickery.
Wonder if anyone has tried an "envelope contract" on a software company and got it enforced..
The creation of a new adult-oriented TLD seems analogous to zoning laws which perscribe where these enterprises can exist. Lots of US cities regulate adult book stores, theatres, strip clubs, and the like through zoning laws. They also regulate access to such places -- by age usually.
But.prn is not analogy for this. You'd be looking at something more like.prn.city.state.us
Unfortunately, this would ruin any hopes of a compromise. ie.: Ok, we'll accept your ban on automatic weapons that fire more than x rounds per second, but only if we increase military spending by $y.
But someone can equally well claim that there is little or no logical linkage between the different parts here.
I used to agree with you, but without major changes in the way congress works, it would never be workable. Nothing would ever pass congress.
This would be bad because? Should not a legislature be rated on the quality rather than simply the quanity of laws it puts out.
Wilson found she could not pursue criminal charges against the voyeur because secret video taping, unlike audio surveillance, is llegal in only a handful of states."
In which case the obvious solution is a simple ammendment of the form "delete the adjective 'audio' from statutes making such surveillance illegal". i.e. the law was badly written in the first place due to being too specific. But this would appear to be completly out of the jurisdiction of the US federal government in the first place.
Point one, just because the cops/prosecutor could not find a chargable offense after someone planted cameras all over the woman's house, we now need a federal law saying it is illegal to plant video equipment in someone else's house?
Actually this appears to go further and disallow someone installing such equiptment in their own house.
What if you invite the person into your home without realizing what they are doing? THere are plenty of times you invite strangers into your home. Someone could plant a camera in your bedroom or bath when they came to install cable TV, or fix the plumbing. What about hotels? Do you think it's ok if someone sticks cameras in hotels and films people?
You'd need to make a distinction between the property owner bugging somewhere and some third party doing the bugging.
Beyond that, you have the problem that hate speech is actually an opinion
Also those regulating "hate speach" tend only to be interested in that which is either highly politcially incorrect or that they disagree with. It is also very easy to blur the line between "hate speach" and "political opposition".
You can bet that a blanket ban on covert filming is going to be actually aimed at threatening the reporters and activists who use hidden cameras to expose the lies and hidden secrets of abusive and corrupt organizations.
This will apply just as much to secret filmin g catching corrupt police and politicans. Let alone that it appears to interfere with someone being able use covert filming to address security of their private property.
So why are we communicating in the native language of the US over a medium invented, developed, and funded by the US on a website that resides in the US?
Except that "the web" was invented by a Brit, at an international organisation, based in Switzerland. Also IIRC the US dosn't even pay half the cost of its international connectivity either.
This is what memory was like in the olden days, before DRAM took over from core memory. Apparently early DRAM computers had big piles of batteries in the bottom of the RAM cabinets to prevent the memory from failing due to a power cut.
More likely to have been Static RAM (SRAM) which holds it's data as long as it is powered. Dynamic RAM (DRAM) needs to be constantly accessed to retain it's data. It is also possibly to have so called Psudo-Static RAM. Which is DRAM with refresh hardware closely associated with it, e.g. on the same chip.
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Much of this research is funded by a DARPA contract which means it is the money of US Taxpayers at work.
So are we really talking about desktop PC's or something more like a missile fire control system on a warship which needs to work straight after being forcably power cycled, before the next bomb or antiship missile is launched at it?
Windows degrades over time. XP does too. Sorry. The heavier the use, the faster it degrades. If a computer just sits there, It may indeed stay up for a couple months. My record uptime for a linux box is over 2 YEARS. It finally needed a reboot because it had to be moved. This was a public HTTP server running MySQL, PHP, Apache, Sendmail, IMAPd, and a variety of other things.
There was a story about a netware server being lost for several years behind a partition wall. Indeed the idea of a computer needing frequent reboots is very much a Windowsism.
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And how many real terrorists are going to, hey, use their own credit card to pay members of their cell, f'rinstance, or waste time chatting on IRC, or doing any of the other things that leave obvious traces?
Why do you think they will even bother using their own names. Quite a few of those involved in September 11th obviously used stolen identities.
Not only are ISPs and others having a hard time dealing with the flood of requests, but it seems Uncle Sam doesn't have the resources to crunch the data it's currently getting. This might be good in so far as it may someday make law enforcement more selective of the information they collect, or perhaps we'll all just be on file indefinately.
Maybe the people in charge of this should take a trip to Berlin. Preferably before the people who could tell them first hand where it is likely to lead die of old age.
The only resources which really matter in the "crunching" are human ones anyway.
The problem is that the government has to waste several hours tracking down the judge to get the warrant signed.
So judges magically vanish into an alternate dimension when they are not at work? They never have such a thing as a street address or a telephone...
So what about the embassy bombings, the U.S. Cole, and the two attempts to destroy the World Trade Center (the second of which was successful)? Are you seeing a pattern? Whatever means we had in place before did not suffice.
It could just as easily mean that various people were not doing their jobs. Maybe instead of more powers they actually need less, so that they are less easily distracted.
In the case of the first WTC attack one of the bombers was an FBI informant, who wanted to disable the bomb. But the FBI said no. The planes which crashed into the WTC (and The Pentagon) had not just taken off, instead they had flown through busy airspace in complete violation of FAA rules for considerable time.
What extra powers would you give to the FBI to ensure they don't tell people not to prevent a terrorist bomb to go off? What additional powers would you give the FAA to ensure that they comply with the already existing regulations for off course aircraft? What additional powers would you give NORAD...
Maybe before new powers (or even more money) these entities might need new managment.
Nationwide roving wiretaps. FBI and CIA can now go from phone to phone, computer to computer without demonstrating that each is even being used by a suspect or target of an order.
The thing is that in order to actually do this they need to have some kind of spy to tell them which line to tap at what time. If they have this they probably don't really need to do any kind of tapping in the first place.
The only reason they could actually want these powere is for at best "fishing", at worst manufacturing bogus crimes.
Use of Passport to authenticate U.S. citizens at websites and act as a single sign-on to receive private data is a flawed idea.
The whole idea of a single sign on to multiple unrelated entities is a potentially flawed idea.
The govt. issuses plastic NI cards with a magnetic strip on them.
But these cards only apply to new issues. They didn't send new cards out to everyone who already had one of the old hand written cards.
I can rember my NI number and my bank PIN.
Can't we use this info. and tec. to access govt web sites.
Except your bank PIN is known only to your bank and issued in such a way that it is not that easy for even bank staff to find out what it is. Whilst UK NI numbers are less abused than US SSN's they are not exactly confidential information.
Terrorists will still get these 'ID cards' just like you and me and what then. How do you distinguish between them and us? You can't. All it really comes down to is more thorough checks for immigrants and border crossings.
Except that they won't appear to be "immigrants" or tourists. You'd need to check everyone entering the US, including those identified as US citizens.
Write a paper letter. They know how easy it is to bat out an email, so they don't give them much weight. In any event, nobody has time to wade through the millions of emails they get, so they sit unread.
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However it might be a very good idea to write such a letter in a dust free environment. Ensure that nothing in the paper or ink can create anything other than short lived isotopes when irradiated and expect it to take quite a time getting to its destination
The courts decide what is criminal and what is not, and up until the latest DOJ lawsuit, they have been found mostly innocent.
Calling them "mostly innocent" is an interesting spin on their being tried because they didn't abide by a previous judgment. Most people would consider "mostly guilty" fits the events better.
So they're going to trust the information of every single citizen to a corporation that has a known criminal track record?
Though given Microsoft's well known security the US will only ever have to deal with "domestic" terrorism in the future. Since all terrorists targeting the US will be recorded as being US citizens. (Also the US won't be able to invade anywhere...)
I've always wondered if the "click if you agree" thing is enough. I remember learning once in my highschool law class that when it came to contracts etc, both parties had to fully understand the extent of the wording - in order to protect people from "fine print" trickery.
Wonder if anyone has tried an "envelope contract" on a software company and got it enforced..
Go back even further and you didn't even need to keep the ram powered, oh the joys of core memory (the stuff with the little ferrite donuts).
One problem with actual core memory is that reads are destructive. So immediatly after a read you need to do a write.
Most people cannot afford more than 1 or maybe 2 cameras, not to mention all of the video equipment necessary to tape every square inch of the house,
At the moment such equiptment is expensive. however it is comming down in price.
The creation of a new adult-oriented TLD seems analogous to zoning laws which perscribe where these enterprises can exist. Lots of US cities regulate adult book stores, theatres, strip clubs, and the like through zoning laws. They also regulate access to such places -- by age usually.
.prn is not analogy for this. You'd be looking at something more like .prn.city.state.us
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Unfortunately, this would ruin any hopes of a compromise. ie.: Ok, we'll accept your ban on automatic weapons that fire more than x rounds per second, but only if we increase military spending by $y.
But someone can equally well claim that there is little or no logical linkage between the different parts here.
I used to agree with you, but without major changes in the way congress works, it would never be workable. Nothing would ever pass congress.
This would be bad because? Should not a legislature be rated on the quality rather than simply the quanity of laws it puts out.
Wilson found she could not pursue criminal charges against the voyeur because secret video taping, unlike audio surveillance, is llegal in only a handful of states."
In which case the obvious solution is a simple ammendment of the form "delete the adjective 'audio' from statutes making such surveillance illegal". i.e. the law was badly written in the first place due to being too specific. But this would appear to be completly out of the jurisdiction of the US federal government in the first place.
Point one, just because the cops/prosecutor could not find a chargable offense after someone planted cameras all over the woman's house, we now need a federal law saying it is illegal to plant video equipment in someone else's house?
Actually this appears to go further and disallow someone installing such equiptment in their own house.
What if you invite the person into your home without realizing what they are doing? THere are plenty of times you invite strangers into your home. Someone could plant a camera in your bedroom or bath when they came to install cable TV, or fix the plumbing.
What about hotels? Do you think it's ok if someone sticks cameras in hotels and films people?
You'd need to make a distinction between the property owner bugging somewhere and some third party doing the bugging.
Beyond that, you have the problem that hate speech is actually an opinion
Also those regulating "hate speach" tend only to be interested in that which is either highly politcially incorrect or that they disagree with.
It is also very easy to blur the line between "hate speach" and "political opposition".
You can bet that a blanket ban on covert filming is going to be actually aimed at threatening the reporters and activists who use hidden cameras to expose the lies and hidden secrets of abusive and corrupt organizations.
This will apply just as much to secret filmin g catching corrupt police and politicans.
Let alone that it appears to interfere with someone being able use covert filming to address security of their private property.
So why are we communicating in the native language of the US over a medium invented, developed, and funded by the US on a website that resides in the US?
Except that "the web" was invented by a Brit, at an international organisation, based in Switzerland.
Also IIRC the US dosn't even pay half the cost of its international connectivity either.
This is what memory was like in the olden days, before DRAM took over from core memory. Apparently early DRAM computers had big piles of batteries in the bottom of the RAM cabinets to prevent the memory from failing due to a power cut.
More likely to have been Static RAM (SRAM) which holds it's data as long as it is powered. Dynamic RAM (DRAM) needs to be constantly accessed to retain it's data. It is also possibly to have so called Psudo-Static RAM. Which is DRAM with refresh hardware closely associated with it, e.g. on the same chip.
Much of this research is funded by a DARPA contract which means it is the money of US Taxpayers at work.
So are we really talking about desktop PC's or something more like a missile fire control system on a warship which needs to work straight after being forcably power cycled, before the next bomb or antiship missile is launched at it?
Windows degrades over time. XP does too. Sorry. The heavier the use, the faster it degrades. If a computer just sits there, It may indeed stay up for a couple months. My record uptime for a linux box is over 2 YEARS. It finally needed a reboot because it had to be moved. This was a public HTTP server running MySQL, PHP, Apache, Sendmail, IMAPd, and a variety of other things.
There was a story about a netware server being lost for several years behind a partition wall. Indeed the idea of a computer needing frequent reboots is very much a Windowsism.
How is Nintendo losing money from people pirating a game the NO LONGER SELL????
It dosn't matter, current copyright law is written in such a was as to allow such hording.